- ISBN13: 9780545021203
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Product Description
Our brains work best under optimal conditions we think more creatively, we absorb information quickly, and we produce better work. So how do we create those conditions in a classroom setting to help all of our students achieve? This guide shows teachers how to use simple research-supported strategies in any lesson to improve students’ engagement, productivity, and capacity to learn. Among the brain-boosting tools teachers can use tomorrow are innovative graphic orga… More >>
#1 by Karenw Rhodes on April 16, 2010 - 3:26 pm
My entire school staff is reading this book for ways to improve our interaction with our students. This offers a research based perspective on learning and teaching!
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Sam Hendricks on April 16, 2010 - 4:43 pm
There is only one word for “Teaching Smarter with the brain in Focus” …Amazing!
Her chapter on Lesson Design is worth the price of the book alone. Easy to read, well-illustrated and helpful to use, Scholastic has provided another winner.
Dr. Sarah Armstrong uses many great real life examples from classrooms and schools; she has obviously “been there and done that” which makes her advice so much more relevant. She encourages thinking in the classroom and avoids “Telling the information”. This is a very thought provoking topic in this age of “teach the test’.
Sarah introduces active engagement/involvement through role-play, simulation, music, visual arts, etc and explains how these techniques can help the brain become better at learning.
I especially liked the different memory systems. I have started to use several of them myself to help my long-term memories. I occasionally teach adult education classes and I will use Sarah’s innovative book for future lessons!
Sarah Armstrong has a real winner here for helping educators and teachers develop thinkers. Whether you are a first year teacher or a senior educator, “Teaching Smarter with the Brain in Focus” can help you in every aspect of teaching.
It is a “Must Have” for discerning teachers!
Sam Hendricks, author of “Fantasy Football Guidebook”
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Carol A. Harris on April 16, 2010 - 7:11 pm
Wow… Dr. Armstrong has provided educators with a guide to lesson planning and classroom instruction that can be used every day!! I have worked as a teacher, principal, curriculum & instructional leader, as well as educational consultant. Never have a seen such a great guide with clear direction to how to use the brain research to support student learning. Thanks, Sarah!!
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Malcolm Fleming on April 16, 2010 - 8:02 pm
Would you like to teach the way you know works best but cannot defend your methodology as research based? Well here is your defense in one skinny little book. Yes, that music in the background of your classroom does have a scientifically researched significance to learning. Dancing on the playground to the rhythm of the times table is far more fun and makes learning easier, than sitting in straight, quiet rows trying to memorize 7×6 or 8×6. Dr. Armstrong makes the scientifically researched connection between how the brain learns and what we do in the classroom. She gives us the science behind the art of teaching that great teachers just seem to know. If I were the principal of your school, you would be reading this book with me this fall and we would probably be sitting in comfortable chairs with headphones on.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by T. Letter on April 16, 2010 - 10:18 pm
This book by Sarah Armstrong was a quick and easy read filled with GREAT strategies and suggestions I can use to make my teaching more effecting and my students’ learning more relevant. If you know anything about Bloom’s Taxonomy, or have ever had an “unreachable” student in your classroom, this is the book for you! I liked the “real-life” stories shared throughout the book; you can tell the author has lived the life of a classroom teacher! I can’t wait to get back to school so I can put these ideas into practice. I wish I had read this book when I was a first year teacher!
Rating: 5 / 5